Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exchange Commission's Dixon-Yates hearing in June, when the House was about to vote on Dixon-Yates transmission lines. The Administration explanation was that Adams, no lawyer, had wanted advice from Attorney General Brownell and White House Special Counsel Gerald Morgan about legal problems relating to the SEC hearings. Since Brownell and Morgan were away from Washington at the time, Adams requested that the hearings be put off until he could confer with them...
URANIUM STOCK RUSH should be slowed down by new Securities & Exchange Commission rules. In a move to eliminate racketeers in penny stocks, the SEC will tighten its small-securities regulations by requiring brokers to give full details of all proposals, place a certain amount of stock-sale proceeds in escrow to insure that investment money will be used for legitimate business purposes...
...despite the fact that Challenger Olson's jabs and hooks took the first round on points. In round two, Moore set the pace, unlimbered his 8-in. edge in reach, stung Olson with a hard jab, left uppercuts -the beginning of the end. After only 1 min. 19 sec. of the third round, Archie shot a walloping right, then two paralyzing short left hooks to Olson's jaw to deck Bobo cleanly for a count...
...National Amateur Athletic Union track and field championships at Boulder, Colo., the thin air at 5,350 ft. above sea level proved a tonic for the University of Pittsburgh's Arnie Sowell, winner of the 880-yd. run in 1 min. 47.6 sec., a full second under Mai Whitfield's listed world record. The atmosphere was not so kind to the milers: the U.S. Marines' Wes Santee, top U.S. hope for cracking the 4-minute-mile barrier, beat out his old rival, the Army's Fred Dwyer, by 25 yards, but Winner Santee's time...
...m.p.h.) in 1951 was the third stiletto-nosed, dull white Skyrocket built by Douglas for the Navy.* It could fly for three minutes under full power after it had been dropped from the bomb bay of a B29, but it took weeks to prepare for each 180-sec. flight, including replacing the 15 coats of lacquer burned off in every...